Personally, I’d bring them home now that the cold war is long gone or move them to Afghanistan/Iraq. Besides, they still get food and shelter provided by the military so it’s not like they could be that worse off. If the military wanted to offer a cost of living adjustment there then that’s fine..but that’s 65k people out of a US population of well over 300,000,000
Yes. We need to quit stationing tens of thousands in Japan and tens of thousands in Germany and bases in over 100 nations around the world.
As far as Germany is concerned, my guess is as many civilians as military just to maintain the base. What is your guess?